municipal solid waste management (mswm) has become the greatest problem facing many urban and semi-urban areas in nigeria, although to varying degrees. this study suggests the various steps and approaches to combat the menace in akure in the southwest zone of nigeria. such approaches include creation of special agencies for the collection, recycling and conversion of municipal solid waste (msw)...

Little attention lias hitherto been paid to the ital Statistics" of the vast civil population of India. While the European and Native Armies, the jails, hospitals, and asylums of all kinds, have for years possessed a sanitary historian and statistician in the persons of the Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India and his Statistical Officer, the civil community, represented by millio...

In rural sections the situation is differed j The means of raising revenue are often unsatisfactory; the distances to be traversed are Srea, ' communications are frequently bad; and_ th general educational, financial and sanitary levels are low. On the other hand, rural area contain the greatest number of people an^ fe they are the main sources of wealth of world, their sanitary environmental c...

A case study of Kingston, Ontario, reveals that growing confidence in the response of science and statistics to the threat of epidemic disease supported the development and expansion of municipal water and sewer services in the late nineteenth century. Informed by science and statistics, professional city managers and sanitary experts sought solutions combining fiduciary responsibility with pub...

In this paper, a mathematical model for alcohol consumption in Spanish population is proposed. Its parameters are estimated by fitting themodel to real data from SpanishMinistry of Health. Predictions about the future behavior of the alcohol consumption in Spain are presented using this model. Results are applied to estimate the economic costs (sanitary and non-sanitary) assumed by Spanish soci...

This Appendix provides details and expanded results for our paper, “Menstruation, Sanitary Products and School Attendance: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation”. In the main paper we present the data and experimental design. Our results show negative, although small, effects of periods on school attendance. We find no significant effect of modern sanitary products on reducing the small effect ...

medical department existed, in India, medical officers serving both the crown and company have?albeit quietly and without the aid of minutes from the Army Sanitary Commission?been practising preventive medicine?taking thought and initiating effort to the end of removing potent causes of disease, and promoting sanitary improvements. In the second place, we entirely agree with him in his opinions...

August 1873, remarked :? " If, as I believe, the art of ,cure has really advanced greatly in the last forty years, the art of prevention has also made great progress, and this has certainly arisen from the improvement in diagnosis. The recognition of a disease, and its reference to a particular category. inevitably lead the mind to probe its causes. This seems an instinct of our nature, probabl...